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Léonard Bourdon

Author : Michael J. Sydenham
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889205884
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Léonard Bourdon written by Michael J. Sydenham and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonard Bourdon: The Career of a Revolutionary, 1754-1807 illustrates the ways in which one individual was affected by and influenced the long and turbulent course of the French Revolution. It also rescues an active, intelligent and interesting man from a prolonged period of scholarly neglect and redeems his reputation from being perceived as a particularly cruel revolutionary terrorist. Sydenham follows Bourdon’s political career from the final days of the old monarchy through Bourdon’s active participation in the Revolution. Bourdon was always aware that political development must be accompanied by educational change, and his lifelong interest in education is an integral part of his story. Bourdon left remarkably few personal papers. During the painstaking exploration for details of his life, several critical as well as unfamiliar events of the period have been illuminated, suggesting that similar misrepresentations of many other relatively unknown French revolutionaries have distorted current understanding of this period, crucial to the growth and development of modern democracy.

Goodness Beyond Virtue

Author : Patrice L. R. Higonnet
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674470613
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Goodness Beyond Virtue written by Patrice L. R. Higonnet and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were the Jacobins and what are Jacobinism's implications for today? In a book based on national and local studies--on Marseilles, Nîmes, Lyons, and Paris--one of the leading scholars of the Revolution reconceptualizes Jacobin politics and philosophy and rescues them from recent postmodernist condescension. Patrice Higonnet documents and analyzes the radical thought and actions of leading Jacobins and their followers. He shows Jacobinism's variety and flexibility, as it emerged in the lived practices of exceptional and ordinary people in varied historical situations. He demonstrates that these proponents of individuality and individual freedom were also members of dense social networks who were driven by an overriding sense of the public good. By considering the most retrograde and the most admirable features of Jacobinism, Higonnet balances revisionist interest in ideology with a social historical emphasis on institutional change. In these pages the Terror becomes a singular tragedy rather than the whole of Jacobinism, which retains value today as an influential variety of modern politics. Higonnet argues that with the recent collapse of socialism and the general political malaise in Western democracies, Jacobinism has regained stature as a model for contemporary democrats, as well as a sober lesson on the limits of radical social legislation.

Becoming a Revolutionary

Author : Timothy Tackett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400864313
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Becoming a Revolutionary written by Timothy Tackett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Timothy Tackett tests some of the diverse explanations of the origins of the French Revolution by examining the psychological itineraries of the individuals who launched it--the deputies of the Estates General and the National Assembly. Based on a wide variety of sources, notably the letters and diaries of over a hundred deputies, the book assesses their collective biographies and their cultural and political experience before and after 1789. In the face of the current "revisionist" orthodoxy, it argues that members of the Third Estate differed dramatically from the Nobility in wealth, status, and culture. Virtually all deputies were familiar with some elements of the Enlightenment, yet little evidence can be found before the Revolution of a coherent oppositional "ideology" or "discourse." Far from the inexperienced ideologues depicted by the revisionists, the Third Estate deputies emerge as practical men, more attracted to law, history, and science than to abstract philosophy. Insofar as they received advance instruction in the possibility of extensive reform, it came less from reading books than from involvement in municipal and regional politics and from the actions and decrees of the monarchy itself. Before their arrival in Versailles, few deputies envisioned changes that could be construed as "Revolutionary." Such new ideas emerged primarily in the process of the Assembly itself and continued to develop, in many cases, throughout the first year of the Revolution. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Terror

Author : David Andress
Publisher : Abacus Software
ISBN 13 : 9780349115887
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book The Terror written by David Andress and published by Abacus Software. This book was released on 2006 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Revolution marks the foundation of the modern political world. It was in the crucible of the Revolution that the political forces of conservatism, liberalism and socialism began to find their modern form, and it was the Revolution that first asserted the claims of universal individual rights, on which our current understandings of citizenship are based. But the Terror was, as much as anything else, a civil war, and such wars are always both brutal and complex. The guillotine in Paris claimed some 1,500 official victims, but executions of captured counter-revolutionary rebels ran into the tens of thousands, and deaths in the areas of greatest conflict probably ran into six figures, with indiscriminate massacres being perpetrated by both sides. The story of the Terror is a story of grand political pronouncements, uprisings and insurrections, but also a story of survival against hunger, persecution and bewildering ideological demands, a story of how a state, even with the noblest of intentions, can turn on its people and almost crush them.

Dutch

Author : Edmund Morris
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307791424
Total Pages : 909 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Dutch written by Edmund Morris and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. When Ronald Reagan moved into the White House in 1981, one of his first literary guests was Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Theodore Roosevelt. Morris developed a fascination for the genial yet inscrutable President and, after Reagan's landslide reelection in 1984, put aside the second volume of his life of Roosevelt to become an observing eye and ear at the White House. During thirteen years of obsessive archival research and interviews with Reagan and his family, friends, admirers and enemies (the book's enormous dramatis personae includes such varied characters as Mikhail Gorbachev, Michelangelo Antonioni, Elie Wiesel, Mario Savio, François Mitterrand, Grant Wood, and Zippy the Pinhead), Morris lived what amounted to a doppelgänger life, studying the young "Dutch," the middle-aged "Ronnie," and the septuagenarian Chief Executive with a closeness and dispassion, not to mention alternations of amusement, horror,and amazed respect, unmatched by any other presidential biographer. This almost Boswellian closeness led to a unique literary method whereby, in the earlier chapters of Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, Morris's biographical mind becomes in effect another character in the narrative, recording long-ago events with the same eyewitness vividness (and absolute documentary fidelity) with which the author later describes the great dramas of Reagan's presidency, and the tragedy of a noble life now darkened by dementia. "I quite understand," the author has remarked, "that readers will have to adjust, at first, to what amounts to a new biographical style. But the revelations of this style, which derive directly from Ronald Reagan's own way of looking at his life, are I think rewarding enough to convince them that one of the most interesting characters in recent American history looms here like a colossus."

The International Style

Author : Henry Russell Hitchcock
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393315189
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book The International Style written by Henry Russell Hitchcock and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most influential work of architectural criticism and history of the twentieth century, now available in a handsomely designed new edition.

Architecture in Vienna

Author : Dietmar Steiner
Publisher : Georg Prachner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Architecture in Vienna written by Dietmar Steiner and published by Georg Prachner. This book was released on 1990 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book-map Architecture in Vienna offers a representative overview of the architectural quality of historical and contemporary building in the city. The locations of the selected objects are indicated on fifteen fold-out extracts from the city map. Precise addresses make the objects easier to find. 345 illustrations and explanatory texts document a total of 350 key buildings from all epochs. Additional general maps give information on the public transport network, the most important main- and through-roads, on protected areas, pedestrian areas and public green spaces and on the development of public housing. This book is an indispensable guide to architecture in Vienna.

American Gothic

Author :
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book American Gothic written by and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1975 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

British Furniture, 1880-1915

Author : Pauline Agius
Publisher : ACC Distribution
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book British Furniture, 1880-1915 written by Pauline Agius and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 1978 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of furniture history is remarkable for its open and ready sharing of information and advice. This stems from the generous approach of some of the subject's pioneers, notably Edward Joy, and is fostered by the vision and scholarship of Peter Thornton and his gifted team in the Department of Furniture and Woodwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The Rock Is My Home

Author : Werner Blaser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783859770683
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Rock Is My Home written by Werner Blaser and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Decorative Folding Screens

Author : Janet Woodbury Adams
Publisher : Penguin Putnam
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Decorative Folding Screens written by Janet Woodbury Adams and published by Penguin Putnam. This book was released on 1982 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Design

Author : Stephen Bayley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Design written by Stephen Bayley and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the leading names, movements, materials and processes such as furniture, fashion, cars, graphics, products, signs and symbols that have influenced the world of design.

Designing Camelot

Author : James Archer Abbott
Publisher : International Thomson Publishing Services
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Designing Camelot written by James Archer Abbott and published by International Thomson Publishing Services. This book was released on 1998 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exquisite book documents the extensive restoration of the White House under the Kennedy administration. It examines the physical transformation of America's premier residence from "home of the President" to house-museum". Kennedy enthusiasts, architects, interior designers, collectors, history buffs, preservationists, and White House watchers alike will covet this book. Full color throughout.

Ackermann's Regency Furniture & Interiors

Author : Rudolph Ackermann
Publisher : Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire : Crowood Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ackermann's Regency Furniture & Interiors written by Rudolph Ackermann and published by Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire : Crowood Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selection of plates from Ackermann's journal; The repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashion and politics. Journal published from 1809 to 1828.

Wallpaper, Its History, Design and Use

Author : Phyllis 1893- Ackerman
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014178640
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Wallpaper, Its History, Design and Use written by Phyllis 1893- Ackerman and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Building the City Beautiful

Author : David Bruce Brownlee
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Building the City Beautiful written by David Bruce Brownlee and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modern Taste

Author : Tim Benton
Publisher : Fundacion Juan March
ISBN 13 : 9788470756290
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Modern Taste written by Tim Benton and published by Fundacion Juan March. This book was released on 2014 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern taste: Art Deco in Paris, 1910-1935' offers readers an opportunity to appreciate, examine, assess and enjoy an artistic movement that defies easy definition but which has been described as "the last of the total styles": Art Deco.0The book aims to question the almost total absence of Art Deco from the history of modern art and from curatorial practice, and to vindicate--as some exemplary cases did in the wake of the Deco revival from the 1970s onwards--not only the evident beauty of Art Deco but also the fascination exerted by this singularly modern phenomenon with all its cultural and artistic complexity.0What we know as Art Deco was an alternative style to the avant-garde. It stood for a modernity that was pragmatic and ornamental rather than utopian and functional, and it became the great shaper of modern desire and taste, leaving its characteristic stamp on Western society and capitalism in the early decades of the 20th century.0Comprehensive and beautifully designed, 'Modern taste' includes nearly 400 works in a wide array of media: painting, sculpture, furniture, fashion design, jewelry, film, architecture, glassware and ceramics are all represented, alongside the photography, drawings and advertisements that helped create "the modern taste."0Exhibition: Fundacíon Juan March, Madrid, Spain (26.03-28.06.2015).